Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-04-16

for just about the southwest corner Of Lafayette
square was burial ground, even then unused
| THE HOME on JOHN QUINCY adams
The old directory says that j. @, Adams lived on
F, between 18th and 18th streets and we remember
That the fire proof building now In eourseof erec-
ton by C. Willard opposite the Ebbitt and called
the Adams Iron building, stands on the spot that
| he was elected President Our old guide shows
| US tnat this same house was bis home when he
thai 20 Rs Save
time he made his sturdy fight for the ''right OF
petition" the fight that brought him so warm
welcome on his return home remember having
| ginning:
| mot from the bloody field,
Borne on his battered shield,
BY foes o'ercome,
But from sterner fight,
In the defense Of right,
| We hail him home."
the aoW lar away all that seems brdged across as
GUS events OF the last 40 years But the old Adams
0ulidlng on = street, is one OF the Washington
MONIES whose history would be found most inter.
estlng. The same old resident whose gifliSh feet
carried her tripping by country paths, right across
M Wnere our SOM streets and now lead
| an diminished building connected with the White
House, and just east Of 1t, which was afterwards
converted into stables for the Presidential man.
SION Here they were taught by Mr.. Andre, one Of
| the foreign artists employed by the government.
wAsHINGToN's HOUSES.
In the early days OF our cityS life no one was
more interested in the march Of improvement
| than Gen. washington. He built, on North
Capitol street, near B, two brick houses which
were originally three-stories high, but which by
Tine rather uncommon process OF growing down
Instead OF up to suit the grading OF the Streets
are now five stories high, and the original Gen
Washington part is at the top.
THE OLD STONE MANSION
The home OF Mrs. Logan-and how sad to say the
nome OF Mrs. Logan, when so few short weeks ago
| 1t was always the home of Gen. and Mrs Logan!-
but this Logan home is as we have so often heard
house was built about 1910, and is now consider.
ably changed from its original plan by the re-
moyal OF It's west wing. The wings, east and west,
Sto0d back OF, and a little apart from, the main
building, with which they were connected by halls
below and galleries above. These two galleries
with their heavy mahogany balustrades and
StalrWayS leading down to the hall of the main
building, must have been very effective piece of
domestic architecture. In front OF the west wing
the stone family brought from SheIey,s grave and
planted there. The little tree made good its foot
Ing on this foreign SOIL and lived for years. until,
the old home being sold, it became necessary TO
improve 90 1t by destroying one of the two wings
which, taken together, gave the house its most
ished too All this, it need hardly be added. han
pened before Gen. Logans purchase of the home
THE MOUNT PLEASANT OF OLD
All the high plateau Of land north of Washing.
ton, from KalOrama to 9TH street, was originally
| called Mount Pleasant, and Mount Pleasant the
Stone estate remained The purchase of Gen.
Logan made change of name suitable and the
farmhouse. now in one of the most rapidly grow
Ing parts OF Washington, was called Calumet
home OF the LOgans and of the nearness OF its
present city neighbOrhOod. Why, even so lately
the young men OF washington used to go hunting
In ''The Slashes," a tract OF wild and wet land
reaching north from and streets nearly to the
foot OF Mount Pleasant, and east and west indef-
nitely. An old resident, whose early g1rlhood was
spent here, tells me that when she first came to
washington it was hardly thought safe for ladies
and b and 10Th streets.
MEMORIES OF TWO WARS.
The whole Mount Pleasant ridge was well
wooded so lately as 1851, but during the war the
trees were many OF them cut down. Mrs Stone.
who remembers as child being put into cart
with her little brother and sister TO be carried of
by night to the HOmead farm, for safety during
the occupancy OF Washington by the British In
years, which included part OF this same HOl-
mead farm, and came into town for residence dur
ing the rebellion, the Stone estate being entirely
the New York seventh Regiment reached wash
1ngton in 81, it was marched out the 18th street
road and camped on the Stone farm in field OF
clover so rich and 50 red as to make the men saw
they had often heard OF living In clover but had
never tried it before. Poor fellows! 1t was not
all living In clover after that.
WHERE JEFFERSON DAVIS LIVED.
The house on 14th street, near F, to which the
Stone family came from the farm, and which is
still the home OF the venerable MIS- Stone, stands
up as solid and as firm to-day as when its sturdy
owner built it somewhere early In the lfties It
was never rented TO any one but Jefferson Davis
who about the time OF Its building. was Secretary
OF War, and who, when living there, went TO
church at Epiphany, around the corner on q
street. The Davis family pew at Epiphany waa
during the war and afterwards, occupied BY the
family OF Edwin NJ. stanton. Thus Contrasts
press upon each other in this Washington OF ours
In fnkl afr 2
the Davis family, the darling Of the household.
| little Samuel, died, and after that the family
moved away. ana the mouse was held untenanted
until the stones themselves came TO occupy it.
AN oLD-FAsHIONED HOME.
| Entering it to-day one is struck by the same
! characteristics which impress strangers in the
Logan home; the wide hall, the high ceilings the
| ample space In all the rooms; no crowding. no
JoSt1ng, but dignity and repOSe in the surround
| ingS that suit well with the house ITSELF You viii
be asked TO SIT down, perhaps In one OF O pair of
Old mahogany chairs that have stood there Oppo.
site each other by the window these many years
AS your hand rests comfortably on the polished
| arm you may be led to ask some question about
the chairs and VIII be told that they once belonged
| such things, and push your questions farther you
may be shown, among other things a little silver
tumbler, with A rudeiy cut on II, and some much
John Quincy Adams IL will be gently explained
that ut was the fashion in those days TO Sell the
| one can speak Of these things which can be seen
| and handled, but the impression Of peace and
quiet that pervadeS this house, and or loving help
1uiness for those in trouble cannot be put into
words. This better record Is written in the CRATE
ful love OF the many SorrOwful hearts that to-day
| ind their serenest haven within the doors OF this
/ old Washington home.
Time fails now 10 describe the "Lenthall Home
| for widows or Washington" built and endowed
! beyond the reach or want by Mrs Stone; but in
| talking OF these things 50 many interesting Incl
dents come TO light that one Is puzzled, to ind
| something 70 Say, but something TO leave out
1 nf of Qr
Washington, must be left to the lines OF some IN.
| ture description u. W. B.
THE WATER METERS.